Covering an RJD press conference once, with Lalu Prasad Yadav fielding questions on new party recruits, manifesto, etc, I noticed a familiar drill play out, which, to me, seemed pretty unique to Patna then.

Local journalists, bored out of their wits for an hour or so, made eye-contact and pulled out a khurafaati (mischievous) reporter — usually bold with throwing keywords at Laluji — to randomly yelp, 'ghungroo', 'bedia' (shackle), 'naao' (boat), from the back.